I can’t change the color of a 2d line in seaborn. I have 2 lines in my plot and I want to assign different colors for both of them.
sns.set(style="whitegrid") data = pd.DataFrame(result_prices, columns=['Size percentage increase']) data2 = pd.DataFrame(result_sizes, columns=['Size percentage increase']) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data, color='red', linewidth=2.5) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data2, linewidth=2.5) sns_plot.figure.savefig("size_percentage_increase.png")
But color='red'
does not change the color, why?
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Answer
You have a couple of options here. You can tweak your use of the color
parameter, or you can use the palette
parameter.
palette
Using palette
would arguably be the cleaner approach. Ideally, you would make only one call to lineplot
when using palette
–with the use of hue
parameter:
np.random.seed(42) y0 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random(20), columns=['value']) y1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random(20), columns=['value']) y = pd.concat([y0, y1], axis=0, keys=['y0', 'y1']).reset_index() y = y.rename(columns={'level_0': 'group', 'level_1': 'x'}) sns.lineplot(data=y, x='x', y='value', hue='group', palette=['r', 'g'], linewidth=2.5)
But you could call lineplot
for each line similar to how you did in your post:
sns.set(style="whitegrid") data = pd.DataFrame(result_prices, columns=['Size percentage increase']) data2 = pd.DataFrame(result_sizes, columns=['Size percentage increase']) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data, palette=['red'], linewidth=2.5) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data2, linewidth=2.5) sns_plot.figure.savefig("size_percentage_increase.png")
color
Using the color
parameter only appears to work with Series objects. This
would be most useful when plotting a single line, rather than when coloring multiple lines in a plot.
Since your dataframes seem to only be one column, you could (A) convert them to Series objects or (B) define x
and y
parameters when calling lineplot
.
Documentation has an example toward the end.
A) Convert to Series
Using your code, it would look something like:
sns.set(style="whitegrid") data = pd.Series(result_prices) data2 = pd.Series(result_sizes) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data, color='red', linewidth=2.5) sns_plot = sns.lineplot(data=data2, linewidth=2.5) sns_plot.figure.savefig("size_percentage_increase.png")
As a minimal example:
np.random.seed(42) y0 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random(20), columns=['value']) y1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.random(20), columns=['value']) sns.lineplot(data=y0['value'], color='r') sns.lineplot(data=y1['value'])
B) Define x
and y
parameters
sns.lineplot(data=y0, x=y0.index, y='value', color='r') sns.lineplot(data=y1, x=y0.index, y='value')